Sentences with phrase «than cell towers»

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The close concentration of urban dwellers, combined with plummeting hardware costs and the overlapping layers of wireless data that accompany us — beamed from cell towers, pulsing from Wi - Fi hot spots, radiating from smartphones in our pockets — has made it easier than ever before to track, sort, manage and organize things in a city setting.

Cell phone tower operator American Tower, now a real estate investment trust, increased its revenue more than 21 % last year as acquisitions helped expand its footptower operator American Tower, now a real estate investment trust, increased its revenue more than 21 % last year as acquisitions helped expand its footpTower, now a real estate investment trust, increased its revenue more than 21 % last year as acquisitions helped expand its footprint.

Internet connectivity is delivered to planes either by expensive ground - based cell towers or via even more expensive satellite relays, which means there will always be a significantly higher cost for this sort of access than there is for the terrestrial equivalent.

Less so is its reliance on TV towers rather than the cell ones that are tomorrow's money spinners.

That alone makes American Tower's more than 40,000 cell towers incredibly valuable property for the next several years, but that is only scratching the surface considering the opportunities American Tower has overseas.

Irregular background noise, wind and variable distance from mouth to microphone all make transcription perfection on a cell phone a towering task — and the results are much less accurate than what you would get using PC dictation software, which faces none of those difficulties.

A key part of the prototype's design is the use of a custom optical bandpass filter to capture sunlight that is normally wasted by commercial solar cells on towers and convert it to electricity at a higher efficiency than the solar cells themselves ever could.

But cell towers are easier to install than telephone land lines, even in such challenged areas, and mobile or cellular phones are widely used among the poor and wealthy alike.

In the fall, Google was sued by Skyhook Wireless — the Boston - based outfit that pioneered the art of pinpointing a mobile device's location based on Wi - Fi and cell - tower signals — which accused using Android to strong - arm handset makers into choosing Google's location technology rather than Skyhook's.

Wi - Fi calling is pretty much exactly what it sounds like — calls that are connected over wireless internet, rather than conventional cell towers.

Alternative energy is a joke, which doesn't take into account anything other than the fact that they burn clean as the so - called environmentalists want to believe that the only problem that exists today is global warming (nevermind the other problems exist, nevermind that mining is ruining our world as well, nevermind that cell phone towers are killing between 5 and 50 million migratory song birds every year or that dams are killing the salmon off, no none of this matters apparently).

Given the unknowns in just what the positive and negative feedbacks are on cloud formation and dissipation and how they're affected by things much smaller than a cell, like jet exhausts, cooling towers, small mountain ranges, etc., it's hard to see how they can be that accurate.

They work by tricking cell phones into connecting to the Stingray rather than nearby cell towers.